Motor-vehicle wheel



Aug. 17 1926. 1,596,097

L. w. G. GRIEVES I MOTOR VEHICLE WHEEL Filed March 50, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 WITNESSES INVENTQR W6: Cire'erea,

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ATTORNEYS Patented Au 17, 1926..

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Application fi led March 30, 1925. Serial No. 19,508.

i This invention which. is designed as an improvement upon my pending application,

Serial No. 595,851, relates to vehicle wheels and more particularly to disk motor vehicle wheels provided with means for, holding pneumatic tires, and has for an object to provide means for facilitating the removing and replacing of such tires.

- Another object is the provision of parts in a disk wheel made up of two opposing tensioned disks, one movable and the other rigidly connected with the hub, wherebyto prevent rotary movement of one disk in relation to the other when the parts are assembled.

Another obect is the provision of means whereby the disks can be separated uickly when necessary to change a tire, an reassembled.

Another object is to provide means for locking the movable disk against relative rotary movement with respect to the hub.

Another object of the invention is to provide a locking sleeve whereby to prevent rotary movement-of one disk relatively to the other disk.

With these and other objects in view the present invention in certain novel features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, and 1n which: 1

igure 1 is a central section through a rear wheel showing an embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the. hub

structure of the same wheel.

Figure 3 is a perspective viewof the '16 and'be'arliigagainst the outer en locking sleeve. 1

Figure 4 is a similar view of the bushing and reinforcing means for the hub opening of the movable disk. Figure 5 is a perspective view of the'hub cap for the wheel.

Figure 6 is a central section of a front wheel showing an embodiment of the pres ent invention. I

Figure 7 is an enlarged fragmentary section takenon line 77 of Figure 6, looking in direction indicated by the arrows.

igure 8 is an enlarged sect1onal view of of a wheel the outer peripheral portion of disk showing a slightly modified form coupling means. 7

According to i the wheel comprises two isks 9 and'lO dished or tensioned, the dished portions disposed in opposing relation. The disk 9 which will 7 be known as the inner disk, is rigidly connected to an annular flange 11 at the inner end of the hub 11, while the outer disk 10 has a central opening reinforced by a flanged bushing 10, whereby to pass longitudinally over the hub.

gresent invention the I The two disks are connected at or adjanular band 15 of the rigid inner dis'k 9, the

band 14 being of sufliciently less diameter than that of band 15 whereby it ma be moved laterally within and then turne circumferentially to nest and lock therein.

The hub includes the barrel portion 11 havin shaped to receive the associated axle A, an inner flange 11 to which the inner disk 9 is rigidly connected, an intermediate flange 11 having the reduced hexagonal sha ed shoulder portion 11, and the still furt er reduced outer end portion which is externally threaded as indicated at 11, to receive the cap nut. as will be more fully pointed out hereinafter.

The shoulder portion 11 of the hub is preferably hexagonal shape and extends outwardly warm a support upon which the hexagonal locking sleeve 16 is slid longitudinally. The central cap nut 17 is then screwed on the threaded portion 11 of the hub passing inside. the removable sleeve same and the flanged bushingl 10" of the movable disk 10, pressing bot bushing against a spring 18 surrounding the hub at the hexagonal shouldered portion, which spring is in turn pressed against the central bore appropriately sleeve and i dof" the intermediate annular flange 11 of the in Figures 1 and 6, the bore of the bushing being hexagonal to conform to the periphery of the removable locking sleeve 16 upon which may be slid longitudinally and held by the cap nut 17. The flange 10 of the bushing is also provided with spaced apart openings 10 for insertion of a tool to turn the movable disk 10 the length of travel of the bayonet slots.

In Figure 6, is shown a section of a front wheel the parts of which are the same as in F i ure 1 except the bearings and the cap nut 1 a in which the cap portion is somewhat deeper to accommodate the axle nut. In other respects the essential parts of the two constructions are the same and the same reference characters have been used.

In Figure 7 a slightly modified nesting band construction is shown, the disk 9 having welded within it the pin carrying band 15 while the outer disk 10 carries the bayonet slot band 14, the disks being connected and disconnected in the same manner as in the other figures.

The locking sleeve is provided with holes as an aid to its withdrawal.

With the parts in the position shown in Figures 1 and 6 the central cap nut 17' must be taken off the hub and the sleeve 16 withdrawn from its position on the hub and in the bushing 1O before the movable outer disk 10 can be rotated and withdrawn from the fixed inner disk 9.

It should be noted that the spring 18 having a hearing at one end against the flange 11 and at the other against the hexagonal sleeve 16 and the bushing 10 of the outer disk 10 puts this disk under tension against the cap nut and prevents rotary movement of said disk 10 with relation to the fixed disk 9 and the hub 11, as against shocks and jerking movements.

While I prefer to use the hexagonal shape in the locking sleeve, the shouldered portion of the hub and the bore of the removable disk bushing it is of course understood that any appropriate non-circular formation may be used.

Having thus described my what I claim is:

1. In a vehicle wheel of the character described the combination of a hub, an inner disk rigidly mounted on said hub, an outer disk having a noncircular central opening invention,

and adapted to loosely fit said hub, means carried within said disks adjacent their periphery for connecting and locking the said disks together, said hub having a noncircular barrel portion, a removable noncircular sleeve inserted within the central opening of the outer disk and fitting on the noncircular barrel portion of the hub, and means for forcing and holding said sleeve in such position.

2. In a vehicle wheel of the character described, the combination of a hub having an intermediate noncircular barrel portion, and a reduced threaded outer end, an inner disk member rigidly fixed to the inner end of said hub, an outer disk member having a noncircular central opening adapted to loosely fit on said hub, a removable noncircular locking sleeve inserted within the said central opening and fitting upon said barrel portion, and adjustable means for holding said sleeve and outer disk on the 7 hub.

3. In a vehicle wheel of the character described, the combination of a hub having an intermediate annular flange and a hexagonal barrel portion in advance of said flange, an inner disk member rigidly fixed at the inner end of the hub, an outer disk member having a hexagonal central bushing adapted to fit loosely on said hub, a removable hexagonal locking sleeve adapted to fit within said bushing and upon said hexagonal barrel portion in advance of said intermediate hub flange, a spring mounted on said hub between the inner ends of the associated sleeve and bushing and the said intermediate flange, and adjustable means mounted on the hub engaging the outer ends of said sleeve and bushing to maintain the same against pressure of the said spring, said disks provided with detachable means of connection adjacent their rim portions, substantially as set forth.

4. An arrangement of parts about the hub of a disk wheel including a fixed inner disk and a movable outer disk, the outer disk having a noncircular central opening, and consisting of a removable noncircular sleeve inserted in said disk opening and supported on the hub, whereby to lock said parts against relative rotary movement LAURANCE WILLIAM GQLDSMID GRIEVES. 

